Event Wrap Up – 2024 UniSport Nationals Athletics Championships
Author: Samuel Tancred
Best Foot Forward
UniSA student athletes showed excellence in this year’s UniSport Nationals Athletics Championships, bringing home 5 medals.
Every athlete that competed for UniSA between the 24th and 26th of April at the Gold Coast Performance Centre, left it all out on the track. All 12 students either made the finals for their events or set a season best time/distance for themselves.
Isabella Guthrie and Tryphena Hewett brought home the gold in the 400m hurdles and the pole vault respectively. Olivia Hastings earned a silver for the 200m and a bronze for the 100m sprints. And Lillee Wakefield claimed a bronze for the para-discus, while placing in the top ten for open women’s hammer-throw, para-shot put and para-javelin.
Cheered on by their team manager, and current UniSA student, Patrick Schultz; the students showed just how formidable they are placing 4th a total of three times throughout the competition. One of those placements going to gold-medallist Tryphena Hewett for high jump.
Our new gold medallists will be added to a list of winners past and future of other standalone events throughout the year, to determine which university will hold the title of Overall National Champions.
And not a moment too soon, as the UniSport Nationals multi-sport event (being held between the 7th and 13th of September in Canberra, ACT) is fast approaching. UniSport's flagship event is set to bring in over 6,000 participants from across the country.
This stand-alone UniSport event brought more than 400 of Australian university’s strongest student athletes from across the nation to compete for glory—and university pride—in men’s, women’s and multi-class events.
UniSport is the peak governing body of the Nationals Competition, that offers the opportunity for the more than one million students representatives of the 43 member universities that constitute the championships.
Full list of UniSA student-athlete results below - congratulations to all team members!
Athlete: | Result: |
Orin Ball | 10th – Triple jump, 18th – Long jump |
Molly Cook | 7th – 1500m, 4th – 800m heat |
Benjamin Driver | 7th – 100m (heat), 4th – 400m (heat), 6th – 200m (heat) |
Chelsea Friedrich | 7th – High Jump |
Jack Grosser | 4th – Triple Jump, 6th – Long Jump |
Isabella Guthrie | 1st – 400m Hurdles |
Jasmine Guthrie | 1st – 400m (heat) (withdrew from final: injury) |
Olivia Hastings | 2nd – 200m, 3rd – 100m |
Tryphena Hewett | 1st – Pole Vault, 4th – High Jump |
Jessica McManus | 5th – 800m, 4th – 1500m |
Lachlan Schoepf | 4th – Hammer Throw, 6th – Discus |
Lillee Wakefield | 3rd – Para-Discus, 10th – Open Women’s Hammer Throw, 4th—Para-Shot Put, 7th – Para-Javelin |
References:
About UniSport Australia. (n.d.). UniSport. https://www.unisport.com.au/about
UniSport Nationals. (n.d.). UniSport Australia. https://www.unisport.com.au/nationals